Tameness for set theory $II$
Abstract
The paper is the second of two and shows that (assuming large cardinals) set theory is a tractable (and we dare to say tame) first order theory when formalized in a first order signature with natural predicate symbols for the basic definable concepts of second and third order arithmetic, and appealing to the model-theoretic notions of model completeness and model companionship. Specifically we use the general framework linking generic absoluteness results to model companionship introduced in the first paper to show that strong forms of Woodin's axiom entail that any theory extending by suitable large cardinal axioms has a model companion with respect to certain signatures containing symbols for -relations and functions, constant symbols for and , a predicate symbol for the nonstationary ideal on , symbols for certain lightface definable universally Baire sets. Moreover is axiomatized by the -sentences for such that proves that L(\mathsf{UB})\models(\mathbb{P}_\max\Vdash\psi^{H_{\omega_2}}), where denotes the smallest transitive model containing the universally Baire sets. Key to our results is the recent breakthrough of Asper\`o and Schindler establishing that a strong form of Woodin's axiom follows from .
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@article{arxiv.2003.07120,
title = {Tameness for set theory $II$},
author = {Matteo Viale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07120},
year = {2020}
}